Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it is an easy switch-on or switch-off I tend to be lost . |
| 2 | At the age of three or four I went to a nursery school which was about three or four doors away from our house . |
| 3 | For a second or two I stare at the words quite blankly . |
| 4 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
| 5 | A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes . |
| 6 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 7 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 8 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 9 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 10 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 11 | It has meant that I have sampled virtually every type of hotel/guest house accommodation imaginable and this I present as part of my qualification to address the subject in question . |
| 12 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 13 | 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’ |
| 14 | I was surprised how weak and light-headed I felt on nipping out of my hospital bed to recover a dropped book . |
| 15 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 17 | All I had were a few personal belongings and a little money , and these I gave to Jean-Claude with all my heart . |
| 18 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 19 | All I knew was that the more I ate , the more I hated myself and my body , and the more depressed and despairing I felt of ever being back ‘ in control ’ . |
| 20 | By and large I agree with Harvey erm I think one of the lessons that is becoming more and more obvious to more and more parents is that schools are there to educate . |
| 21 | A room temperature might be a low temperature for certain erm physical phenomena , but by and large I think in physics low temperatures tends to mean temperatures below the erm boiling point of liquid helium , I think . |
| 22 | Another part of me is racist , probably because I 've hardly met any colored people and all I know of them is what I read in papers and see on television , where black people are usually talked of in terms of numbers and presumed guilty until proved innocent . |
| 23 | We have lived in Birmingham for 18 months and been totally absorbed in familiarising ourselves with our own local environment , and all I knew of Highgate , Sparkhill , Sparkbrook and Small Heath was where they are on a map . |
| 24 | And all I got for that was a couple of tin medals , uh uh , aye dear Aye . |
| 25 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 26 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : Has she told you what I did to her , and all I did to her ? |
| 28 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
| 29 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 30 | And all I want for Christmas is a reindeer . |